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What Is Lean Portfolio Management? A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

There are many ways to do this and one of which is lean portfolio management. Let’s first define lean portfolio management and then delve into how it works. We’ll also explain when to use lean portfolio management and how project management software can help you manage your portfolios better. What Is Lean Portfolio Management?

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New Broom, Sweeps Lean! Four ROI, Efficiency and Productivity Hacks for The New IT Project Decision Maker

Project Accelerator News

When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Find out more about PMO Services from Stoneseed The post New Broom, Sweeps Lean! Often though, hindsight shows that making small tweaks could have been more productive.

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

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Kanban is from Japan, originating in the factories of the Toyota car company in the 60s as a lean manufacturing tool for workflow and inventory management. For one, both are ideal for lean and agile projects, limiting work in process and favoring a continuous scheduling flow as opposed to pushing through a schedule. What Is Kanban?

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5 Simple Reasons Why Processes Don’t Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One for risk, one for escalations, one for changes, issues, new project kick-off, closure, logging dependencies… the list goes on and on. There is a chance that processes lean too far in the other direction too. Process risk isn’t understood. There is an element of risk in most business things, and processes are no different.

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What Is Oracle Primavera Cloud? Uses, Features & Pricing

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The software integrates project and portfolio planning with teams, resourcing and risk management as well as scheduling. They are Primavera schedule, task scheduling, Primavera portfolio and risk management. In addition, OPC lets users perform Monte Carlo analysis for quantitative risk analysis.

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5 Governance Steps for Distributed Project Team Management

LiquidPlanner

Managing a distributed project team takes real skill and a definite commitment to putting a governance structure in place that enables success. Delivering Project Success via Good Governance. Governance is nothing more than how a project will be controlled to deliver intended outcomes. What “good” or “effective” work looks like.

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The PMO Roadmap for Driving Business Agility

Planview

34:15): One of the great risks is sticking with the status quo. This includes “unlearning” how you have done things before, especially for PMOs focused on traditionally strict governance, rigid processes, and a project focus. Part of this is empowering teams by providing “just enough” governance. Here’s a set of those questions.

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